Lawnswood Cemetery contains this impressive columbarium, opened in 1933, with two colonnaded wings, with niches in the walls containing funeral urns and inscribed stone tablets. I don't know that I've ever seen one before, at least not in this country, and certainly not on this scale. They are not, I think, that common. Nowadays people tend to scatter or bury the ashes and sometimes have a small plaque. In Lawnswood there are plaques along all the edges of the paths, many with vases for flowers.
I've certainly never seen one before. I only knew the word as a posh term for a pigeon house!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shot of that beautiful ceiling.
ReplyDeleteIt makes for nice memorial.
ReplyDeleteThe monochrome was very effective here, Jenny.
ReplyDeleteWell chosen for black and white.
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